'Don't you dare start reneging!' MAGA fans turn on Trump over Friday night appointment

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36. There's two ways it could happen...

Possibly, the positions are SES or Senior Executive Service slots which are political appointees and can be terminated by incoming administrations. Historically they haven’t been, but Trump is sure to take full advantage of it as it was a priority of Project 2025 that he claims only brought him coffee once.

Also, Trump is probably going to reinstate Schedule F, which had been hurriedly implemented in late 2020 (yes, after his election loss) and remained on the books until it was summarily discharged by President Biden in 2021.

What Schedule F is:

“A Schedule F appointment was a job classification in the excepted service of the United States federal civil service that existed briefly at the end of the first Trump administration during 2020 and 2021. It would have contained policy-related positions, removing their civil service protections and making them easy to dismiss. It was never fully implemented, and no one was appointed to it before it was repealed at the beginning of the Biden administration. Trump has stated his intention to reinstate the Schedule F provisions at the beginning of his second term.

The purpose of the provision was to increase the president's control over the federal career civil service, which proponents stated would increase flexibility and accountability to elected officials. It was widely criticized as providing means to retaliate against federal officials for political reasons, impede the effective functioning of government, and provide risk to democracy. It was estimated that tens or hundreds of thousands of career employees could have been reclassified, increasing the number of political appointments by a factor of ten.

Since mid-2022, the 2024 Trump campaign's plan to reinstate the provision has attracted attention and commentary. In April 2024, the Biden administration adopted a regulation that would prevent most of the effects of a reinstatement of Schedule F, the repeal of which by a future administration would delay implementation by several months.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schedule_F_appointment

A day one thing for Trump and the Retrumplicans.